Go Ahead and Compare'em Anyway

Breum and Antman

Comparing these two players is not really a worthwhile exercise on an apples to apples basis, as Jakob Breum and Oliver Antman played distinctly different roles within the 2024-2025 Go Ahead Eagles team. While Breum has played quite a bit in wide attacking roles so far in his career, last season saw him mostly as a #10 within a base 4-2-3-1 formation, with Antman as the wide right attacker.

While initial reports on the Breum interest and bid from Celtic suggested he was intended to be a “wing,” I suspect he is/was intended to be more like Nygren has been used to date. Here are their respective heatmaps from last season:

Breum

Antman

Now on to the benchmarking exercise: